South Africa’s electricity minister has said the largest solar-plus-storage project in the Southern Hemisphere is evidence of efforts to mitigate the country’s difficult energy security situation.
The CFO of Goldman Sachs-backed US battery storage developer-operator GridStor discussed its recent investment tax credit (ITC) transfer deal for a California BESS project, highlighting some downsides as well as positives from the new mechanism.
Clearway Energy has put two large solar and storage projects into operation in California, it announced on the same day as an industry letter asking Congress to reform siting, permitting and transmission before this year’s elections.
Rapid technology improvements and trade policy risk pose a dilemma for US battery storage procurement decision-makers, write George Touloupas and Jeff Zwijack of consultancy and market intelligence firm Clean Energy Associates (CEA).
The Britishvolt saga and any potential for a lithium-ion gigafactory at the Northumberland, UK site looks to be over after US private equity firm Blackstone acquired it to set up a data centre.
The six US states comprising New England have banded together to request federal government funding for large-scale electricity transmission and storage projects.
Renewable energy developer-operator Arevon has entered into a long-term offtake agreement for a 250MW/1,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in California with community choice aggregator (CCA) MCE.
Netherlands’ climate minister has allocated €100 million in subsidies to the deployment of ‘time-shifting’ battery storage with solar PV projects for next year, an acceleration of a larger €400 million-plus programme.
ESN Premium’s look at safety practices in the battery storage space continues with an example of how battery analytics helped a developer respond to community concerns.
Green Li-ion, a Singapore-headquartered startup, has put into operation what it claims is the first recycling facility in North America to turn black mass directly into precursor cathode active material (pCAM).
